This is the iconic Christchurch Cathedral a month ago. Unfortunately now it is completely destroyed as is 80% of the city after the last earthquake on Tuesday. That wasn't the first one, just at beginning of September a strong earthquake (7.1) shook the city causing damages to buildings and infrastructures. So with the second one (6.3), all structures that were previously weakened just fell down causing quite a lot of deaths. Actually, it is a very critical situation here: the city doesn't have electricity nor water, so the government is starting to relocate citizens. Another less dramatic consequence happened on the Abel Tasman glacier, a point near to the epicenter. A hiker just 5 km away from the spot could hear and felt the detachment of at least 33 tons of block of ice from the glacier. As it landed it provoked a big shake in the region.
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